We should remember that the astonishing revelations of radium and other radioactive
substances seemed, at first, to upset the Law of Conservation of Energy. Lord Rayleigh
invented a device which acted continually when exposed to the apparently "free" energy
of radiation. It was not until Einstein's Theory of Relativity that Physics came to understand
mass as a form of energy, and a realization that the Laws of Thermodynamics reflect just a
small part of the universe's true nature.

Similarly, until 1908, scientists routinely used the laws of physics
to rule out the possibility that man would ever fly.
Five years after their first successful flight, and in spite of many public demonstrations, the Wright Brothers'
invention was still being ridiculed as a hoax in the press and scientific community. It
was not until President Theodore Roosevelt ordered public trials that the Wrights were
finally vindicated.

Did Johann Bessler, like the Wright Brothers, employ an unknown physical principle to
achieve the "impossible?"

Simon Newcomb, after proving
that human flight was "utterly impossible,"
conceded that it might one day be possible, but only by the discovery of some entirely new material or force of nature.
In essence, that is what happened. The Wright Brothers employed principles of
Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics that were completely unknown to Physics at the time.

Gravity is the
least understood force
in the natural world. Perhaps there is room in that uncertainty for Bessler's Wheel.